These are incredibly cute *and* useful!

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My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

It's the Equal Access Public Media Spring Fund Drive, and you can help by spreading the word about EAPM. Equal Access Public Media • Focuses on improving accessibility in the journalism industry and public-facing news products. • Is a nonprofit in the public interest. • Funded almost entirely by small-dollar donors. • Trains journalists in accessible skills. • Built projects including The Word magazine and the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide.

You may have heard it's our Spring Fund Drive. You probably also heard that we're not asking our donors to give money again.

Instead we're asking you to talk about us. So we thought you might like to have the facts about us.

(And please share our website, too! www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org)

"Wickedly fun." -DANZY SENNA, author of Colored Television The Payback A NOVEL Kashana Cauley

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE AN NPR AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FEATURED IN Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * Vanity Fair * Chicago Tribune * Mother Jones * Bustle * Electric Literature * The Washington Post * The Maris Review * Literary Hub "A terrifically fun book that made me laugh out loud at least once every chapter." —LOS ANGELES TIMES "Riotous-and righteous." — VANITY FAIR "High jinks with a healthy dose of social commentary." -THE WASHINGTON POST ada Williams is good at judging people by their looks. From across the mall, she can tell not only someone's inseam and pants size but exactly what style they need to transform their life. Too bad she's no longer using this superpower as a wardrobe designer to Hollywood stars but for minimum wage plus commission at the Glendale mall. When Jada is fired yet again, she is forced to outrun the newly instated Debt Police, who are out for blood. But Jada, like any great antihero, is not going to wait for the cops to come kick her around. With the help of two other debt-burdened mall coworkers, she hatches a plan for revenge. Together, the three women plan a heist to erase their student loans forever and get back at the system that promised them everything and then tried to take it back. Kashana Cauley is the author of The Payback and The Survivalists, which was named a best book of 2023 by the BBC, Today, Vogue, and more. Cauley is also a television writer, having worked on The Great North, Pod Save America on HBO, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker, among other publications. Find out more at KashanaCauley.com.

If you can’t make it, The Payback paperback is out on Tuesday, May 12th. Same great student loan industry heist novel, new smaller package perfect for slapping your enemies in the face. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The thing that has always worked best for me is the Gaia Herbs Bronchial Wellness tea. It's really good for that deep lung irritation.

My family's version of Chattermax was Pete the Repeat Parrot, a 90's toy that my brother got as a gift and that was quickly banished to the top of the china cabinet. They didn't remove the batteries, though (?!), so any large thump could result in a squawk.

This is absolutely true. I was raised by conservative evangelicals in a rural area. We were allowed to watch PBS, Jeopardy, and pre-approved videos. When I went to grad school and my roommates had cable I caught up on *decades* of sitcoms and cultural references I'd missed.

I really like @hammerandhope.bsky.social because I see stories like this and think, wow, I am so glad someone wrote this.
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Thrilled to announce the world premiere of our new documentary, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, Sat., Apr. 11, 2026, 4:00 pm, Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock, PA. Please help us spread the word by social media/personal contacts. Tickets ($10) available here:

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Things we want people to know. 6 years after the start* of the COVID-19 pandemic. *The day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This was not the date of the first case.

It’s not just a cold. We wish it were just a cold. We would not keep talking about it if so. Since 2020, doctors, scientists, and millions of people who have had COVID-19 have learned that it can cause permanent damage to multiple organ systems within your body, leave you disabled and unable to do the things you love, and significantly harm your quality of life. A cold cannot disable or kill you the way COVID-19 can.

We know a lot more about prevention than we did back then. We all remember when we thought maybe we’d be ok as long as we were 6 feet away from sick people; that masks worked one way but not the other; and more. But just like with all new viruses and scientific study, we learned more as there was more time to study and observe, and we now know that wearing masks and keeping cleaner air are key to protecting ourselves and others. Now that we know better, we can (and should) better protect ourselves and others.

We understand the frustration about vaccines, but they are still extremely important. We all remember when vaccines were first made available, and it would’ve been great if that was the end of the pandemic. It wasn’t. And a lot of people have gotten frustrated and have given up on vaccination. It’s true, the virus that causes COVID-19 changes (which is why, like the annual flu shot, we need to get updated COVID-19 vaccines each year), and the vaccines we have now will not eliminate COVID-19 on their own. But they are still very effective at preventing serious illness and death, so even though they are not the one quick solution to the pandemic we all wish they were, they are still extremely important, and we should all stay up to date.

This week marked the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve summarized our thoughts a bit below, but tl;dr: Unfortunately, COVID-19 is still with us, & although we may be tired of hearing about it, it’s extremely important to continue to take steps to protect ourselves & others.

I like TORT - Trump Only Ruins Things.

And also because I care about you! If there's a simple tool that is very effective at preventing this awful disease and helping you avoid my experience, I want you to know about it.

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These are adorable *and* useful.

Oof. Fingers crossed for a swift recovery! Dogs and cats can also catch and spread COVID, which is also not great for anyone.

I'm also a consultant (single-person LLC) who switched from TurboTax to FreeTaxUSA 3 years ago after the search function in TurboTax got me nowhere with a retirement contribution question. I will never go back.

I love how you can see similar houses from the same architect throughout Hartford and West Hartford (none quite so grand, though).

This is a jewel of a book. Heartily recommend.

I'm assuming the hotel staff are squirrels? They all have the same uniform.

February 1-28, 2026 February Fiction For Fun #FeFiFoFu Work on your short story, thriller, romance, mystery, or other fictional work for 15 minutes or more each day. @mdryebecce

This is the year I'm finally piloting February Fiction for Fun (#FeFiFoFu). I need a short, simple, practice of joy and creativity more than ever. For at least 15 minutes a day from today to 2/28, I'll be working on my fiction WIP. Feel free to join me!

We had objective sections as part of my undergrad literature exams. It was a printed list of concepts, names, quotes, objects, etc. from works we read. We had to identify the work they were from and explain their significance. It's both manual/in-person and hard to do if you don't know the material.

I'm The Disciples.

Lot of Quakers in that list!

Tag yourself in the Joy of Cooking excerpts. I'm a privileged Roman snail.

He's a cereal monogamist, though.

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Hi, I'm Ruptured Appendix (age 4).

Machiavelli's The Prince (original Italian)